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Aural hematoma in dog's ear
rossowmn
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My good dog Nudge has developed an aural hematoma (blood pocket) in her ear. Has anyone out there experienced the problem and treatment with their own dog? How were the results? And, I hesitate to ask, what was the vet bill? I've had the repair done on a cat with bad (deformed) results. Any advice?
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Aural hematoma in dog's ear
Is that anything like the aurora borealis?
one of our cats had a urethral blockage...visit 1 : $300.00
visit 2 : $300.00
new cat food: $20.00
no more blockage.
our dog ate some cat litter once. we woke up to take him out and his tongue was hanging out farther than normal, back legs weren't moving. he just couldn't poop. paid $600 for the dog...and $600 to make him poop again. poop.
poop.
I probably deflated his professional demeanor a bit when I said, "Yeah, an aural hematoma. How much to fix it?"
Jeez, it's not like diagnosing liver cancer or sterility -- what else could it be when she's fine one day and not the next -- maybe swallowed a balloon and it migrated to her ear flap?
He was probably further deflated when he asked if I had seen the problem in a dog before. I told him not in a dog but in two of my cats who were treated at his hospital -- one of which ended up with a totally crippled ear after the surgery, and the other of which died as it was coming out of anesthesia. (I wasn't being a smart-* with him, just feeling a little cranky about another big vet bill -- I put $137 into Nudge 10 days ago for shots and heartworm check -- and feeling a little leery about ear surgery after my experiences with the two cats at the same facility.)
He retreated to the computer, did some calculating, and came back with an estimate of $255, plus I'm sure another $26 for his three-second confirmation of my amazing amateur diagnosis. Not actually as bad as I thought, though, so I dropped her off this morning and will pick her up later this afternoon -- if she doesn't die coming out of anesthesia. Then it'll be days of keeping her in a clown collar, tricking pills into her, etc. But she's worth it. She was a rescue dog when I found her last summer, apparently having been abandoned by some visiting "folks" who worked the pea fields and then headed south, leaving her behind as unnecessary baggage. (I'm told it happens all the time in the area in which she was picked up as a stray.) She was then kept in a 3x3 wire cage for five months before I adopted her and was in bad shape, with open sores from scratching, bloodshot eyes, terrible skin and a nose that looked like a dried mud flat. But today she has gained 10 pounds, has healed up and is a beautiful, loving, gentle obedient dog. She stays 100% on my 7 acres, even though there is no fence. She doesn't harass my cats, chase deer or poop in her kennel when I'm not at home. Heck, I couldn't ask for a much better dog if God himself were to make one to my specs.
There, now I don't feel so bad about the vet bill. [:)][:)][:)]
a pet is like a child.you have to take care of them
I totally agree, hence spending $500+ on her. I just wish I could take care of her as cheaply as I could a child. (Seriously, with insurance I would have paid less for an appendectomy!)